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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Class of '61 has already donated $2.9 million to bring the entire College Fund kitty only $500,000 away from its $17 million goal, according to Reardon. The other two major reunion classes may pay a lower price to attend the reunion--$480 per couple--but their events cost Harvard less to run and their donations this year have dwarfed the reunions' costs. The Class of '36 has forked over $2.4 million to the College Fund; Harvard will treat them to a $180,000 shindig this week...
Under the circumstances, however, popularity is not much use to Nakasone. He is forbidden by his party's constitution to serve more than two consecutive two-year terms as party president. His strategists hoped to get around that rule by calling for snap elections in the lower house of parliament late in June to boost his standing and give him the clout to change the party rules. But leaders of rival L.D.P. factions, including former Prime Ministers Takeo Fukuda and Zenko Suzuki, immediately objected to the plan...
...Prime Minister's scheme appeared to have collapsed early in May, when House Speaker Michita Sakata attached a rider to a court-ordered reapportionment bill requiring a waiting period that effectively postponed lower-house elections for 30 days. The delay prevented Nakasone from dissolving the lower house in time to call new parliamentary elections...
Undaunted, Nakasone's planners came up with a last-ditch ploy: to call the lower house of parliament into special session to debate relief measures for the yen. By preventing parliament from recessing, the Prime Minister could exercise his power to dissolve the lower house and call elections. If that happens, political observers give Nakasone a good chance of revising the party's restrictive rule. "It is a document that is easy to change," said an L.D.P. official. If Nakasone fails in his bid for new elections, however, his chances for another term are slim indeed...
...unrest flared two weeks ago, as students at Yarmouk University, 42 miles north of Amman, staged strikes and sit-ins demanding lower fees and student rights. When Communists and Brotherhood activists joined the demonstrations, baton-wielding riot police moved in. At least three students were killed and hundreds wounded...